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"I know Delkin, slightly," he said. "I'll go with you." At that, Fullaway jumped up, evidently annoyed and unwilling, but prepared to act against his own wishes. "Oh, all right, all right!" he exclaimed. "In that case we'll all go. Come on it's only across the Strand. Back after lunch, Mrs. Marlow, if anybody wants me."
As the three men threaded their way through the crowded Strand and approached the Hotel Cecil, Fullaway suddenly drew their attention to a private automobile which was turning in at the entrance to the courtyard. "There's Delkin, in his car," he exclaimed, "and, great Scott, there's our Princess with him Nastirsevitch! But who's the other man? Looks like a compatriot of ours, Van Koon, eh?"
And there is no doubt that it was Ebers who told Schmall of the two matters of which he obtained knowledge when he used to frequent your rooms. Mr. Fullaway the pearls belonging to Miss Lennard, and the proposed jewel deal between the Princess Nastirsevitch and Mr. Delkin. But in that last Merrifield came in.
But his natural sense of caution and reserve stopped the words before they reached his tongue, and he took another tack. "You said just now, in talking to Delkin, that you'd the greatest confidence in this Mrs. Marlow, and had the best references with her, Fullaway," he remarked. "What references?" "Good business references!" answered Fullaway excitedly. "The best!
"It's a case of widespread ramifications to use a long word. But we keep having developments, Mr. Delkin. There's been one this morning. We came to see you about it and perhaps you'll let Fullaway tell! he'll put things into fewer words than I should." "Sure!" answered the millionaire. "Go ahead, Fullaway we're all interested."
Delkin, it appears, keeps a very big banking account here in London so big, that his bankers think nothing of his drawing what we should call enormous cash cheques.
"I'll let Allerdyke say why we came here," he said. "It was his idea and Van Koon's not mine. Your turn, Allerdyke." "I shan't be slow to take it," responded Allerdyke, stirring himself. "I'm one business man Mr. Delkin's another. I only want to ask you, Mr. Delkin, if you ever talked of this jewel transaction to anybody beyond your own secretary?
For you see Miss Slade let him know that she was open to do a deal for sixty thousand pounds! How were they to get sixty thousand pounds? Ah! now came a confession from Merrifield which has already for I've told him of it made Mr. Delkin stare.
James Allerdyke from Russia." "True true!" exclaimed Fullaway, clapping a hand to his forehead. "So I had! I'd forgotten that. But, after all, it was purely a private letter from Delkin, and " "No," interrupted Mrs. Marlow. "It was written and signed by Mr. Delkin's secretary. So that the secretary knew of the transaction." Van Koon shook his head and glanced at Allerdyke.
He renewed his acquaintance with Schmall when he came over this time with Delkin met him accidentally, and got going it with him again and they both resumed dealings with Van Koon who, I may say, was wanted by Chilverton on a quite different charge.
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